Word: plot
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...questioned because he had been murdered, presumably to assure his silence. Trouble is, Eidson is very much alive; he denies any involvement in King's murder, and there is no evidence to dispute him. Then there is the man identified by Pepper as the mastermind of the plot. He turns out to be a retired auto worker in New York State; he also denies any wrongdoing, and there's no evidence against him either. There are many more examples of Pepper's recklessness, especially in Gerald Posner's new book on the King assassination, Killing the Dream...
Meanwhile, the CUE Guide is under attack. Some administrators have threatened to remove one of the Guide's most helpful features, its endorsement of individual teaching fellows. Unless this is part of a sinister plot to impede our education in the name of public image, there appears to be no logical reason for this move. The sad fact of many of Harvard's courses is that teaching fellows are the ones doing most of the teaching, making the names of recommended TFs even more important than those of recommended professors. If anything, more TFs should be rated, not fewer...
...even exploring the possibility ofborrowing a plot of land in Rehoboth, Mass., a45-minute drive away, from the family of a fellowVES concentrator...
Which is never, it must be added, seriously in doubt. The plot of A Patchwork Planet provides little suspense but--Tyler's trademark--many occasions for touching human details. The best of them involve Barnaby's sympathetic observations about the aging people who depend on his services. "I never counted my clients as friends--not even the ones I liked," he says. "Clients could up and die on you." So they do, and Barnaby mourns them. One of his favorites, Mrs. Alford, goes suddenly, and relatives show Barnaby the quilt with a Planet Earth design that she had hastily finished...
...plot: Hades busts Persephone for wearing imitation Patrick Cox white loafers and forces her to spend the winter months in the Underworld of Las Vegas before being released to Beverly Hills for Contempo Casuals' spring sales. The relationship between script and clothing was murky, for Monoyudis's palette owed more to 1988 Miami than the West Coast. The two halves of Persephone's wardrobe, from her winter internment in Las Vegas and her springtime rebirth in Los Angeles, were nearly identical in their erratic eclecticism...